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Marwa Bakabas

Adjunct Faculty

Anthropology: Conflict & Displacement, Migration, Humanitarianism, Refugees, Middle East, Global Urban Studies
Aziza Bayou

Graduate Lecturer

Anthropology: Economic anthropology, culture and political economy, public sector labor unions, identities and inequalities, gendered division of labor, social relations of production, ethnographic methods, anthropology of work, anthropology of religion, New Orleans and Caribbean region.

Melissa Kerr Chiovenda

Adjunct Faculty

Anthropology: Afghanistan, human rights, genocide and atrocity crimes, refugees and immigrants, collective memory and collective/intergenerational trauma, political identity, civil society and protest movements, ethnic and religious minority vulnerability
Jamie L Clark

Director of Undergraduate Program in Anthropology

Associate Professor

Anthropology: Paleolithic archaeology, human-environmental interaction, hunter-gatherer lifeways, zooarchaeology

Kimberly Foecke

Assistant Professor

Anthropology: Biological anthropology, analytical methods, stable isotopes, biogeochemistry, paleoecology

David W Haines

Emeritus Faculty

Anthropology: migration, governance, kinship, information technology, East and Southeast Asia
Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

Professor

Anthropology: Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

Haagen Klaus

Professor

Anthropology: --Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, dental anthropology, mortuary analysis -- Forensic anthropology and forensic taphonomy -- Prehistoric and Historic Andean South America; organization of complex societies -- Health, violence, identity, and ethnogenesis -- Theory and methods in bioarchaeology

Huwy-min Lucia Liu

Associate Professor

Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology; Political Anthropology; Politics, Economy and Religion; Socialism and Change; Subjectivity and Governance; Civil Society; Life and Death Studies; Ritual Studies; Culture and Emotion; Gender and Masculinity; China and Taiwan
Angelina Locker

Postdoctoral Fellow

Anthropology: Biocultural archaeology; migration; kinship; social complexity, legitimization of power; isotope geochemistry; ancient DNA; memory; place-making; mortuary archaeology; archaeological science; human-environment interaction; resilience; household and settlement archaeology. Geographic foci include Belize, Mesoamerica, and Romania.

Christopher Morris

Associate Professor

Anthropology: Medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, extractive industries, indigeneity, ethnicity, colonial and postcolonial histories, governance, im/material properties, southern Africa

Rashmi Sadana

Professor

Anthropology: Urban space, gender, and social mobility; infrastructure, design, and the built environment; language politics and ideologies; cultural identity formation; ethnography of literature; postcolonial theory, globalization, India
Anne L Schiller

Professor

Anthropology: Identity, religion and ritual, social change, Italy, Indonesia
Linda J Seligmann

Emeritus Faculty

Anthropology: informal economies and markets, agrarian issues, gender relations, quinoa, culture and food, Latin America, Andean region, Peru; transnational and transracial adoption, U.S., anthropological theory and methods
Rick W. A. Smith

Director of Graduate Programs in Anthropology

Assistant Professor

Anthropology: Genomics; Ancient DNA; Colonialism; Science and Technology Studies.